The problem of traffic congestion is becoming endemic due to increased levels of populations owning automobiles. In an effort to minimize congestion, an accurate method for modeling the flow of traffic is imperative. While randomized microscopic models can be very accurate, they are computationally much slower than macroscopic models. Furthermore, macroscopic models can be very accurate in mode...

In this paper, we consider linear stability issues for one-dimensional hyperbolic conservation laws using a class of conservative high order upwind-biased finite difference schemes, which is a prototype for the weighted essentially non-oscillatory (WENO) schemes, for initial-boundary value problems (IBVP). The inflow boundary is treated by the so-called inverse Lax-Wendroff (ILW) or simplified ...

This paper continues the convergence analysis in [M. Giles and S. Ulbrich, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 48 (2010), pp. 882–904] of discrete approximations to the linearized and adjoint equations arising from an unsteady one-dimensional hyperbolic equation with a convex flux function. We consider a simple modified Lax–Friedrichs discretization on a uniform grid, and a key point is that the numerical sm...

In this paper we discuss the issue of conservation and convergence to weak solutions of several global schemes, including the commonly used compact schemes and spectral collocation schemes, for solving hyperbolic conservation laws. It is shown that such schemes, if convergent boundedly ahnost everywhere, will converge to weak solutions. The results are extensions of the classical Lax-Wendroff t...

The Lax-Wendroff theorem stipulates that a discretely conservative operator is necessary to accurately capture discontinuities. The discrete operator, however, need not be derived from the divergence form of the continuous equations. Indeed, conservation law equations that are split into linear combinations of the divergence and product rule form and then discretized using any diagonal-norm ske...

The advection equation is the basis for mathematical models of continuum mechanics. In the approximate solution of nonstationary problems it is necessary to inherit main properties of the conservatism and monotonicity of the solution. In this paper, the advection equation is written in the symmetric form, where the advection operator is the half-sum of advection operators in conservative (diver...